Amph The Fast & The Furious (Fast X)

Seeing it Saturday, it looks odd even by Fast and Furious standards.

 

I’m off to see it in an hour. Can’t wait!

 

yah the lack of closure and blatant sequel bait and no resolution who was pulling the strings was kind of annoying. There's some solid stuff in here, I actually think it sings along pretty perfectly for about 30 or 40 minutes until the end of the first time they meet Brixton and the crazy running down the building scene, then it sorta drags, some bits pop, other bits don't. Saoman showdown against Britxon's army wasn't as cool as the movie thinks it is. But Director David Leitch (Deadpool 2) has some solid action stuff, this is way more punching than car chasing, only Fast and Furious real moment was the daisy chain / turbo boost to bring down the chopper. Still, seeing Hobbs and Shaw basically hate each other the entire time is solid and the facial recognition hallways scene is genius. it's way too dang long and bit too many cameos / sequel bait

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(yes, Kevin Hart, we know there's a Jumanji sequel coming out)

, but something gets blown up, makes a quip, or punching livens things up.

 

I still think...

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the Director is Cipher.

 

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Reynolds'

character also totally spoiled the Game of Thrones finale which would mean they shot the post-credit, like, just 2 months ago or so. I guess they thought it was funny to randomly spoil the finale of game of Thrones in a Hobbs and Shaw post credit.

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/24...haw-ends-with-a-giant-game-of-thrones-spoiler

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That’s Ryan’s twisted brain I think. When I asked him to do the scene in the Pancake House [at the beginning of the film] and to be this character Locke who gives the exposition of the virus, I asked him to help jazz it up. Ryan always has a lot of great ideas, and he wanted to riff on Game of Thrones, obviously it’s in the pop zeitgeist and it’s such an iconic show, and he’s like ‘let’s go after Game of Thrones for fun.'

Also remember when Tyrese was begging the Rock on social media to not do the spin off cuz Tyrese had bills? Tyrese is still bitter!

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/24...ud-by-poking-fun-at-hobbs-and-shaw-box-office

I have to show my respects for one thing…. He tried........ Folks called me a hater…. And attacked me for speaking out..... Breaking up the family clearly doesn’t have the value that one would assume it does

 

I'm 99% certain he spoils the Game of Thrones S7 and also the series finale saying

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"Jon Snow had sex with and then murdered his aunt and nobody wants to talk about i!"

 

I didn’t realise there were three after credit scenes. I only stayed for the first two.

 

yah the entire theatre emptied out, I stuck it out mostly cuz I had a feeling there'd be more (and it's just basically a continuation of the mid-credits scene although there's a great callback to the bit about stabbing someone with a brick from earlier in the movie) but there's also a crazy techno rock rap song featuring Idris Elba singing about his character hating Hobbs and Shaw.

 

The inside of the plane looks like a Hollywood set that's supposed to be a C-130. At least they don't have 6 cars lined up side-by-side in it like they did a few movies back (C-130 cargo compartment is barely wide enough for one car, so at most you could line up 3 front-to-back).

Also, Vin is driving my Mustang. If he messes it up, he'll answer to me.

 

I can't stop watching that trailer. It's gotta be the craziest trailer I've ever seen, even by F&F standards, and I love it! People can complain about this series all they want, but it's one of the only times we can go to the theater each year, sit back and relax, and just watch the craziest **** happen. The series is just so damn enjoyable. Cannot wait!

 

If he's still alive, what about Gal Gadot's character? I'd be more likely to spend money on F&F if she was in it.

 

Hell yeah, same. I’m hoping she pops up in the final film. I have great memories of Gal Gadot in Fast & Furious. Back when Fast Five came out she didn’t have a lot of fans, and I used to be very active on her Facebook page and she’d like all of my comments. Now she’s huge.

 

She was probably filming Wonder Woman: 1984 while Vin and Co. were shooting FF9

 

I guess they haven't ruled out a Peacock-exclusive series?